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I like pretentious looking album covers and obscure song names.
Just listened to the first track. I love it. I personally don't care about deeper harmonics, how it may just be some guy turning some knobs on a track table, or that it isn't "deep" enough - if it sounds good I'm gonna listen. Music is about "taste" anyway, and honestly having "developed musical taste" is like the greatest scam of all time - its basically a way to affirm your superiority in the most passive way possible - listening to music. Enough of the pretentious rant.
In short, I can't write music reviews. Music reviews suck and are subjective as hell. For me, its either I like it or I don't.
For me, I like it a lot.
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"still pretty cool" is that keyed in CMajor? really relaxing sounding.
but needs more guitar solos.
also.. isnt the flinstones thing copyrighted? can you get in trouble for using it.
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I listened to all the songs on soundcloud and I thought it was awesome. My favourites were 'still pretty cool', 'overy montage' and 'wintermute'. Actually goat was a little bit epic too.
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i like "indifference" pretty chill to listen to. i dont usually listen to this sort of music but it reminds me of LIMBO's ambience/music.
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Awesome stuff, pretty laid back. Been listening to it when I'm reading manga.
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I've listened to half the album now. I still like your stuff a lot, but it's very very intense because of all the sounds! To me that makes it hard (not bad) to listen to. It's a lot to take in.
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I remember listening to Wintermute in one of your blogs awhile ago. Still went back to it every once in awhile on Youtube because I liked it quite a bit.
Downloading now 
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On October 09 2010 08:02 ffdestiny wrote:
"happy just doing stupid shit"
It's like you can see right into intrigue's soul.
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I thought for sure this was going to be from FakeSteve when I saw the description.
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So far, so good, man. Start-up the third song on SoundCloud, and so far thinking of sticking it on my iPod
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Awesome album, reminds me of Mogwai. Freakin love it.
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So while I was browsing through boes's mediafire looking for some sweetass kpop (ok i think i was actually downloading the stuff he linked in that one blog recently but still) i came upon a file called "castles" and said "well boes and i like a lot of the same music so I GUESS I'LL GIVE IT A TRY" so i downloaded it (ok i think i just accidentally downloaded it because i was looking for castevet but still) and i liked it and now i like it more knowing that it came from TL and especially u.
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wintermute is my favorite.
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This is definitely an interesting album.
While I don't usually listen to this, I am intrigued (LOL GET IT? HAHAHAHAHAHA) by strangeness of the whole album. I'm not really convinced that these sounds are "pretentious", but they do sometimes detract from a melody in your pieces that perhaps you wanted more people to hear.
But I do like it. I write for the school newspaper, and if I'm tossed a music review for this month, I'll definitely consider doing a write up for this one, if only because I think you deserve more attention.
Pop culture sucks. >.>
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ahhh so good. a week or so ago i checked your soundcloud and was very pleased to see new tracks :D
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On October 09 2010 09:44 boesthius wrote:incoming sick hipster brag ![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/FT2xP.png) listened to intrigue before castles even existed, SICK LYFE. gonna take me a bit to catch up to the plays that fotp has gotten, though. glad to see you finally get this done and out to people! i still can't get over ovary montage, it's so good.
Why are TMG so low on plays - -? EXPLAIN YOURSELF!
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AWWW YEA POST ROCK
but seriously this is some great music, I'm kinda interested in how you go about making these types of songs, I want to learn real bad
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i really appreciate the honest criticisms! and as for the compliments, you guys are too kind =]
On October 09 2010 09:03 SubtleArt wrote:Show nested quote +On October 09 2010 08:02 ffdestiny wrote:
Album cover is pretentious, and actually a turn off in terms of thematic/intrigue/appeal to make me buy. I don't get if there is any connection to the name of CD/album cover/individual song to a central theme, type of music (other than in general, electronic), a message or anything. I like the fact that it's available for download in all kinds of formats, and I don't like that last.fm "cuts-off" the song.
Going by the track names and descriptions this seems like a hodgepodge of someone tinkering with the knobs and controls of recording/looping software. Production value is a bit better than a home recording (that's meant as a compliment). Overall theme would be, "happy just doing stupid shit," from what I am gathering. I agree with this. That's what the songs sound like. A bit pretentious and drawn out with no real technical skill, just stuff that sorta sounds good playing with additional instruments / sounds for decoration, especially "still pretty cool". Just an honest opinion  Unlike this guy though, I love the cover. I've seen plenty of covers that are random and have little conection to the band or album (meddle, court of the crimson king, and led zeppelin 3 come to mind) and they still worked well.
yeah i totally understand this point of view, i think the exact same thing of other artists sometimes so i sympathize (more than you may expect!) when it comes to this. unfortunate of course that it happens to be my stuff that people think this of, but what can i do right haha. i am very grateful you listened though, thank you
On October 09 2010 10:07 Coagulation wrote:
"still pretty cool" is that keyed in CMajor? really relaxing sounding.
but needs more guitar solos.
also.. isnt the flinstones thing copyrighted? can you get in trouble for using it.
yes, c major!
maybe
I DON'T KNOW
On October 09 2010 09:55 palanq wrote:
listened to a few songs... I like it. when did you start writing this, how long have you been working on it, what's your process, what's your music background etc?
tracks #1 and #2 were written and recorded about a year ago, and the rest all within the last few months. my music background is me picking up a lot of instruments, getting to the equivalent of iccup D-/D and quitting them because i have no discipline and attention span. this covers piano guitar sax and violin =[
as for process i just get really fixated around transitions from one idea to another one and just build around it - the simplest example would be in nations, when the drumline and chord progression changes at :51. i am a big fat amateur because i don't really know what i'm doing yet. still figuring stuff out!
On October 09 2010 14:26 Eroqa wrote:
AWWW YEA POST ROCK
but seriously this is some great music, I'm kinda interested in how you go about making these types of songs, I want to learn real bad
the only way to get anywhere is to just START MAKING STUFF. this can be you strumming chords you think sound cool and humming. this can be you downloading ableton or garageband for the first time and playing with drums, finding beats you like, finding out how to layer cheap-sounding instrumentation over itself to make something sound cool. this can be you getting a bunch of friends, getting stoned and just playing one note over and over because you think the Fmaj7 chord is sooo beautiful, it sounds like angels crying LOL
you might later discover you prefer to start with bass first and then the drums, or that you like the sound of certain instruments more than other ones. this is when you kinda start to think you know what you're doing, but then...
around this point you get stuck with like 30 second loops and wonder how the fuck anyone makes a song at all. this is when you start thinking about the songs you like yourself and how they're structured, like verse chorus verse chorus hook blah blah buildup tension explode verse. you try to incorporate this elementary 'theory' into your own stuff to disastrously cheesy results, but it slowly gets better.
and eventually you'll put together a 3 minute clip of something you think is cool.
you post this 3 minute clip somewhere hoping for "you're awesome!!"s, but it gets bashed. you feel stupid and stop making songs for a bit. a few months later you're bored and go through the same process again. eventually you get your first compliment, maybe from your mom or your dog and it's a FUCK YES moment.
go through this process a bunch of times and eventually you are comfortable posting your stuff and seeing the comments without cringing. confidence is everything, believe in your stuff. haters are gonna hate, but there will always be one or two people out there that inexplicably really like your stuff and it's hard to explain why you get so much validation out of it.
you want to get to where you are honestly cool with different people having different music tastes. everyone prefers something different, and criticism on your work has no reflection on you as a person. making songs is an intimate process, but don't get your ego into it and it'll stay fun!
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cool stuff, I'm no music critic- but I enjoyed the album for what it's worth :D
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